Variations in the diet and population density of the red fox Vulpes vulpes in the mixed woodlands of northern Belarus

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 74-89

  Sidorovich, V E ^a   Sidorovich, Anna A ^a   Izotova, Inna V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Belarus; Feeding ecology; Population dynamics; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

CANID; DIET; FEEDING ECOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BELARUS; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; LEPUS; MICROTUS; MURIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; RODENTIA; UNGULATA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 33644556486     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: 16181476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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